Stardust Rhapsody: Anthem | S2E2 | Crazy On You
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What triggers the birthday pizza attack and discovery of a mysterious Grid Boy?
Grab your instruments and lend your cosmic chorus to our Stardust Rhapsody. Let's jam. After a long journey hunting the Scarlet Eye Syndicate, the crew takes a well-deserved break to celebrate a very special day, Ziggy's 25th birthday. They enjoy pizza and games at the chain establishment, Did Someone Say Pizza?, and Meteor Mall. The festivities are abruptly cut short when, with an orange glow in their eyes, the animatronics come to life and attack the party, immediately grappling Ziggy. They then dispatch them until the lead animatronic, Hungry H. Hippo himself, comes to life, eyes once more alight with a neon orange glow. A gift pops out of his chest, wishing Dinobite a happy birthday. Ziggy takes it and discovers a retro and ancient grid boy.
Let's Play blinks on the screen. After an eventful birthday celebration, they head back to the Rhapsody where Rhett gets a lead on Portia Bella Gones, their latest bounty. They make their way to Asriel searching for Balfe Scudder. They find him. You stand in the ruined living room of Bolf Scudder, absolutely coated in his blood after Portia Bellagones murdered him in the fashion you are familiar with. This isn't the first time you've followed up on one of her kills with a shotgun blast to the head, but it is the first time you've seen the scene up close. Blood runs down his chest over the tattoo that depicts a serpent eating its own tail, his stained shirt having been forcibly ripped open just before or after his death.
Your lead has turned up dead once more. So this is... Like you said, not the first time we've seen the evidence of Portia Bella's style of killing assassinations. No, you would have seen this almost needlework blast, specifically to the head, of splattered blood and bone across several crime scenes as it were hits um never this up close though with the opportunity to really examine the body and get into it uh or the the surrounding environment um but it is certainly not the first time and you know this very specifically as you come upon his uh his now deceased form that this is absolutely the handiwork of portia bella damn it not again
Well, I guess he had reason to be scared.
I mean, this is like it just fucking happened. I'm going to basically, everyone watch your shit, as I am going to start trying to run through the apartment and see if Portia Bella is still here. I probably, Mikey probably understands that a master assassin like that would be gone without a trace, but this feels fresh, right? It's not rotting, it's not like- Oh, blood is dripping down the chest. It's not congealed or solidified. It's obvious that it's like, I guess what I would do is I would walk up to the body itself, and while Ko is doing that, Rhett would have a similar instinct, but instead look at the body to gauge how fresh it feels in terms of how long ago he was killed. Roll a medicine check.
And if I can, I'm not going to jump into the room, but hearing Ko's words and seeing Rhett go into it. Roll an investigation check. I'm going to scan the horizon. I'm going to turn away from the opening door. Are we on? You're in the penthouse. You're at the absolute top level of this high rise apartment building. So you're looking out over this city. Okay, so I can actually look out the window and I want to see if I see a speeder that's unusual or someone running along a rooftop or something along those lines. Roll a perception check. Yeah, boy. Rhett. Natural 20. 14. With a 14, it's hard to get an exact sense, but you can tell quite that rigor's not set in yet. The blood, as I said, is actively moving across his chest.
There's the ever faintest presence of warmth, though the warmth of life is long since from its peak. But it's not minutes. But it's hard to tell three, five, 10 hours. It's hard to know exactly when it would have happened. Zeke, you move to the window, scanning the horizon for any suspiciousness.
I get a natural 20.
So I see Portia on a rooftop. You see the matron. You see the metropolis laid open and bare in front of you of Azrael.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What triggers the birthday pizza attack and discovery of a mysterious Grid Boy?
0:00–6:20
2
How do the crew investigate Balfe Scudder’s murder and find weird evidence?
6:20–20:59
3
What happens when Silica is hacked and issues a challenge to solve the AstroVox Grid Boy?
20:59–25:58
4
How do the team respond to Mega Destroyer’s invitation and beat the arcade games?
25:58–1:54:09
5
What happens when the arcade 'final boss' Mega Destroyer appears and challenges the party?
1:54:09–1:56:42
6
How do the players respond to initiative and the opening attacks in the grid-boss encounter?
1:56:42–2:07:02
7
What tactics do the party use to dismantle Mega Destroyer and her programs?
2:07:02–2:16:16
8
What revelation does the defeated Mega Destroyer reveal about the threat to Dinobite's family?
2:16:16–3:20:19